The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-22

eagles feather, with which the Emperor al
ways writes; the third table are books Ger
man. English and French newspapers and re-
views. complete files of which are also kept in
large room on the ground floor of the palace. In
this Office the Emperor passes large portion of
his time, and it is there that he receives those
who have business with him, but except
the abide camp on duty, who sleeps in the ad-
joining room. his yalet-dechambre Walter,
whose grandfather long held the same position,
his physicians. and Prince Bismarck are ever al
lowed to enter his bedchamber.
The imperial household is q frugal one, and |
few are the grand dinners given. Both Wilhelm I
and his Empress love the company of their
kind. but naturally, they have very few init
mate friends. She is not fond of anything but !
plain German cooking. but he likes French /
plates, we'll made and seasoned. Every winter /
they give three or four state balls in thu old |
chateau at the end of the avenue facing the mu-
scum. about five minutes walk from the palace |
in which their Majesties live, and not far from |
the various embassies 1t is a very plain look |
ing four-story building, somewhat in the |
eighteenth century style; it is plastered outside,
contains about six hundred rooms, two courts, a |
chapel, and is surmounted by a low dome. The |
courts paved with the cobbestones which |
were the fashion in the days when carriages |
were much heavier and clumsier than they are
It is the Empress who really keeps up this
royal style. never for an instant abandoning her
role, and always endeavoring to make it resem-
ble as clearly possible. that of the old French
monarchy. The Germans and Berliners have
| never learned to understand her, and she has
always been looked on by them rather as Rus
sian-which she is by descent-than as Ger
man. AS matter of fact she is rather unpopu-
lar with her subjects. The dancing does not last
long, an hour and half at the most, and then
the cham berlains reform the court cortege, and
body goes to 4he supper-rooms, about a
dozen in number, each of which is assigned to a
different category of guests Foreigners are apt
| TO pronounce the refreshments found in these
supper-rooms very inferior in arrangement and
| variety. bat the Germans seem quite satisfied
| with their sovereign's hospitality.
The Man Who Will Succeed the Kaiser.
| When the people see Frederick William,
their Crown Prince on horse at the head of
his brilliant staff they can we'll compare him to
| Mars, the god of war. 'Unser Fritz is
tainly magnificent specimen Of the German
soldier. He is not only popular in the army
| but he is social favorite in Berlin, where he
| has made it a rule to mix with oil the upper
circles, no matter what might be their political
affiliations. His palace is always open to men
| Of letters, savants and artists. even his avowed
political enemies being welcome. The Crown
Princess is hghly-cultivated lady. very fond
| of art in all its branches and is herself good
painter. She has been mainly instrumental IN
| the creation of those museums, industrial
schools and literary societies that doing such
| excellent work in Germany. Tho future
ereigns reside sometimes at Potsdam and some
times in the ''Kronprinzliche Palast," house
| which stands next to the imperial one in "Unter
den Linden 1t is much larger than the man.
| sion occupied by Emperor Wilhelm, and it is
filled with objects of art OF all sorts, while the
collection of both old and modern paintings is
among the first in Berlin. The gems of these
galleries were personally selected by the En-
| elish Princess.
The Crown Prince and his wife have six chill
dren living The eldest, Prince Frederick Will
| lam of Prussia, was born in January, 1859, while
his sister. Victoria Elizabeth was born at Pots
dam in July OF the following year. She married
before her brother did-wedded Prince Bernard.
| the eldest son of Duke George of SAKE Weimar.
| That in February. 1873 and in due course
she gave birth to daughter. and this made the
Queen of England a greatgrandmother To out
few women is it given to hold in their arms the
grandchildren of their own daughters, but Vic
torla has had that happiness, as had similarly
the Empress Elizabeth. who has caressed her
own sons grandson. Well, not long after his
sisters wedding came Frederick Williams
turn; he married the daughter OF the late Duke
Won Schleswig- Holstein, and already they have
three or four children, the youngest having been
born late in January of the present year.
Naturally. Prince William is in the army, and is
now major in the Guards. His brother Henry
is lieutenant in the German navy
The Crown Prince is a man of gentle charac
ter and commanding abilities. He is thorough
| soldier, and at reviews watches the stride and
| swing of every regiment it passes him. He
knows every colonel personally, and the generals
are all his friends He is, moreover, fond of
t farm life. and have seen a picture which shows
him holding the pillow behind q span of horses.
hard at work turning burrows in a field. The
home life of the Crown Prince and Princess, both
at Potsdam and in Berlin, is one of great sim
pcity The Prussian court is like to no other
in the primitive orderliness of its arrangements.
s Gala dinners take place at 3 O'Clock, ordinary
= ones at a. performances of the opera and the
alter are usually over by 10. and the last dance
e at state balls in the old chateau is ended soon
y after midnight These early hours suit princes
r and others who have military duties to perform
or who would like to be ND and writing before
| o'clock in the morning. The Crown Prince is a
most tolerant man. and the Princess has similar
q good qualities This tolerance has bred In her
: q vigorous antipathy to intolerance in others
: which was dsplaye ed in a marked way when the
t cour pastor. Herr Adolphus Stoecker. commenced
s the antSemitic agitation by a sermon In which
e he abused the As, 600 Jews in Berlin. His ugly
" words nearly provoked bloodshed. The Grown
q Prince was much displeased, and personally re
= proved the pastor, while the Princess contrary
% to all court precedent, invited some leading mem
j. bers of the Hebrew community to dinner
ii "Unser Fritz" and the Crown Princess ar
n fond of going to the theater but. unlike the oil
v Emperor they do not care much for the opera
1t The Prince retires early, and is up by or
70 o'clock in the morning They 60 out a grea
n deal in the daytime, and they are frequently
n seen walking arm in arm through the avenue o
i'd some public garden without attendants. Once
st saw him in. full uniform following on foot in tn
n funeral procession of old general, and all eye
in the crowd were fixed in admiration on him
70 At another time saw him on race course i
is the saddhng paddock, in the stables talking t
le trainers and in the imperial stand looking q
H. the steeple- chasers. Then / saw hmm again 0
I'd the field at the head of 5000 armed soldiers
n he was a hero on horseback, almost as great
til hero in my eyes as Pap" Thomas. the grandes
H. old man that ever a generals uniform.
~ have seen the Crown Prince also in a dra wins
Vt room, and saw then that he had mastered tn
d, regal trade of elegant manners. Speaking
On trades reminds me that all the Hohen Zollerr
RS are put to learn one in their boyhood TIL
ds Crown Prince learned to be acabinet-maker, an
u his eldest son. Prince William, who may som